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What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.

Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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Brazil provides model for banana republic to the north www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/braz...

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Willie Fitzgerald's avatar Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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K R's avatar K R @kringelberg.bsky.social
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I learned a lot about Roger B. Taney from Clark RAP colleague and friend Sora Han this last spring. Whew. He's awful (and important) but allow me to recommend her work, which is important and the opposite of awful: www.dukeupress.edu/mu-49-marks-...

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
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Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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Even if the numbers are underestimating Biden's chances, which is possible, I still think the trend within polls has to be considered alarming

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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"Field" refers to a bet on anybody not otherwise on the list.

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Can we maybe get this bullshit updated?

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Robert Black's avatar Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social
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The Framers: *literally wrote many, many passages that you would swear on your life were prophetic visions of Donald J. Trump, and how such a figure must be guarded against at all costs* John Roberts: surely what they wanted is for this uniquely lawless figure to be placed above the law

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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"...this opinion depends on an implicit belief that the only person who would act so brazenly is Trump, and that because the majority of the justices on the Court support Trump and want him to be president, he must be shielded from prosecution."

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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Oh look a country where people strategically try to prevent the anti-democratic party from taking power

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history

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Elon Green's avatar Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social
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i don't want to read a thing about Ralph Nader unless it concludes with "he was survived by his cats."

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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Good thread. (And worth noting again that the holding that official acts cannot even be used as evidence is so extremist and pernicious ACB wouldn't join that part of the Court's opinion)

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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Yes, maybe there's some clever version of hardball Biden's team can come up with, something that doesn't involve ordering assassinations. But one thing he *should* be able to say is "I reject the idea that the president is above the law, and I vow never to use this illegitimate 'immunity' defense."

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Rick Hasen 's avatar Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social
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My new one @Slate: "Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy"
Is the Supreme Court obtuse or disingenuous? slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Dave Hitchcock's avatar Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social
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It's not an 'extreme hypothetical' if the guy promises to do it in literally every stump speech he gives.

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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"This case involved flagrant crimes that at least one of the spouses of of the justices who voted in the majority actively participated in, while another spouse advertised her support for those crimes contemporaneously with their commission."
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/with...

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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He accuses the dissent of "extreme hypotheticals," then, instead of recognizing Trump as uniquely corrupt and criminal, speculates that the charges against him portend a future in which presidents "cannibalize" one another with criminal charges -- despite two centuries of that not happening.

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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"This is worse than Dred Scott. This is the darkest day in the long and infamous history of this institution. Richard Nixon’s claim that if the president does it it’s not illegal is now official Supreme Court doctrine" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/trum...

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Benjamin Park's avatar Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social
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Everyone has noticed how radical Mike Lee has become in recent years, but not enough have noticed how dumb he is.

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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That's the first one I'm aware of, from our commenter wjts.

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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Rishi Sunak to the courtesy phone please

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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Like him or not, the idea that we can be confident that Governor French Laundry would be a better national candidate than Biden is the Dem equivalent of "any Republican who can win statewide election in Florida must be a transcendent political super-talent"

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Will Stancil's avatar Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social
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anyway I can’t think of any way that unceremoniously ejecting the incumbent Dem president from the ticket, four months before the election, with no agreement on a successor, no process to pick one, and most people pushing the idea assuming it WON’T be the vice presidents, could possibly backfire

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Michelangelo Signorile's avatar Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social
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Don't fall for the trap. If Democrats listen to the New York Times and try to replace Biden, the New York Times will have a new narrative: Democrats in chaos. And they will then have 347 stories a week about whoever is the candidate, all focused on how inexperienced and unprepared that person is.

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Scott Lemieux 's avatar Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
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However facially plausible, the idea that almost any Democrat other than Biden would easily beat Trump is essentially 100% vibes 0% data (especially when you compare consider how incumbents in other counties are doing) www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/06/well-4

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

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Al Yankovic's avatar Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social
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A true artist and a truly sweet man. RIP, MM.

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Defector's avatar Defector @defector.bsky.social
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"The freakout about Biden's performance was built on a paradox: What made his weak showing so appalling was that the other candidate on the stage was so obviously worse." defector.com/debate-losers

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The conservative majority of the Supreme Court doesn’t think bribery is much of a crime, but someone sleeping in their car is

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Yup. Now we're about to have a game of chicken: a couple extremist judges are going to enter nationwide injunctions against everything. Question is how many members of the federal judiciary will say "this is wrong and is not binding in my court" versus how many will shirk their duty.

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